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Re: Do not use C++ style comments (// comments). Strict ANSI C compilers do not accept them.

Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: andast@kth.se, pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2019-09-26T08:53:43Z
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On 2019-09-25 00:13, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> PostgreSQL 12 requires C99, so those guidelines should probably be
>> rephrased from "because old compilers don't accept it" to "because we
>> like it that way".
> 
> Yeah, or more formally "to encourage consistent coding style".

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